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What if Starbucks Marketed Like a Church? A Parable: I think I encountered this particular ‘brand’ of Church marketing when I first moved down to the Raleigh burbs of Apex. It does inspire me to want to ‘reel-off’ a parody … Continue reading →

As your church &/or charity finalizes your communications strategy for 2013 — assuming your organization plans such things in advance — I thought it might be helpful to create a colorful handout of Church Marketing Sucks top 10 posts for 2012 so you could better identify targets for tactical textual content.

If you aren’t a regular reader of ChurchMarketingSucks.com, then either you like wandering in the church communications wilderness, or you just haven’t had time to add their RSS feeds to your aggregator … go ahead … we’ll wait. Continue reading →

Facebook rocked the internet yesterday with 5 new plugins, one of which is an API for the Facebook Like Button. After reading about it and playing a bit with the Facebook’s Like Button generator, I decided what’s needed is a WordPress plugin that allows folks to easily configure the look-and-feel of the Facebook Like Button, and then automatically add it the beginning and/or the end of their posts. Continue reading →

What actually heals a church website? Here are 5 remedies I have to offer based on some of the many excellent comments in response to last Friday’s open comment post on the same topic. Continue reading →

There’s no getting around it, despite the efforts of many to teach, rebuke, correct & train in righteous web design, there still exists a great cloud of witlessness when it comes to the Church’s presence online. A fact painfully corroborated by the persistent body of â€˜kitschâ€˜ out there that distracts, annoys and otherwise drives-away people seeking and/or serving the Lord. Continue reading →